Leonardo I. Tocco

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Leonardo I. Tocco (* around 1310/15; † 1381) from the Neapolitan aristocratic family Tocco was Baron von Tocco , Vitulano , Casafolese and Pietra di Tocco with Tocco Caudio from 1353 . From 1357 until his death he was 1st Count Palatine of Kefalonia, Ithaka and Zakynthos and is thus the progenitor of the Tocco line of Achaia , which ruled over the Ionian Islands and up to the second half of the 15th century over parts of the despotate of Epirus .

Life

Leonardo Tocco was born around 1310/15 as the son of Guglielmo Tocco , the governor of Corfu and his wife Margherita Orsini , the daughter of Giovanni I. Orsini , the Count Palatine of Kefalonia . Since Leonardo's mother was partial heir to Zakynthos , the latter was entitled to the dignity of the palatine count.

On November 3, 1347, Louis I of Hungary invaded the Kingdom of Naples to avenge his murdered brother. While Queen Joan I of Naples managed to flee Naples with her second husband Louis of Taranto and to seek refuge in Avignon , Ludwig's brother, Robert von Tarent ( Prince of Taranto , Regnum Albaniae and Achaia, and titular emperor of Constantinople from the older house Anjou ) captured in Aversa and brought to Hungary in 1348 . Leonardo and his brother Pietro II loaned money for the prince's release from captivity in Hungary. From a letter from Margherita von Taranto (sister of Robert and Ludwig von Taranto) from July 25th 1350 (?) It emerges that Pietro was sent to Hungary to negotiate the liberation of the prince.

When he was released in March 1352, the son of Guglielmo II. Tocco, Pietro II., Who had worked “hard” on Robert's liberation, received the fiefs of Martina and Santa Maria della Vetrana (today Avetrana ) according to a privilege from 1353 in the province of Taranto , Pomigliano d'Arco in the metropolitan city of Naples and some goods in Corfu. On September 26, 1353, Leonardo I received the barony of Tocco , Vitulano , Casafolese and Pietra di Tocco near Tocco Caudio.

Palatine County of Kefalonia, Ithaca and Zakynthos (1388)

Robert, who wanted to recapture the empire of Constantinople for his mother, Katharina von Valois-Courtenay , titular empress of Constantinople , went with the two Tocco brothers (Pietro and Leonardo) to Greece in 1353/54 , where they succeeded in Corfu , Kefalonia , Zakynthos , Ithaca , Arta , Vonitsa Fortress and other places on the mainland of Morea under their control. Robert titled himself as Duke of Lefkada and made Leonardo I in 1357 1st Count Palatine of Kefalonia. While Leonardo stayed behind as captain general, Robert and Pietro II returned to Naples in 1364.

Leonardo was one of the ambassadors who went to Naples in 1374 to offer the Principality of Achaia to Queen Joan I after the death of Philip II of Taranto .

family

Leonardo married before the autumn of 1361 Maddalena de Buondelmonti († after March 11, 1401), the sister of Esau de Buondelmonti and the daughter of Manente Buondelmonti and Lapa Acciaiuoli .

The couple had the following children:

Leonardo I. Tocco died in 1381; He was succeeded by his son Carlo I. Tocco .

literature

  • Archivio di Stato di Napoli, Antonio Allocati (a cura di): Archivio privato di Tocco di Montemiletto . Rome 1978.
  • Romolo Caggese: Italia, 1313-1414 . Declino dell'impero e del papato e sviluppo degli stati nazionali. Garzanti, Milano 1980, p. 297-331 .
  • Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General encyclopedia of the sciences and arts . First Section AG. Hermann Brockhaus, Leipzig 1868 ( online version in the Google book search).
  • William Miller : The Latins in the Levant : A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566) . John Murray, London 1908.
  • Erasmo Ricca: Istoria de 'feudi dell'Italia . tape III . Stamperia di Agostino De Pascale, Naples 1865 ( online version in Google book search).
  • Antonio Summonte: Historia della città e Regno di Napoli . III, Libro IV. Stamperia Giuseppe Raimondi e Domenico Vivenzio, Naples 1748 ( online version in the Google book search).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The name Carlo, which occurs in Giovanni Antonio Summonte, is certainly wrong.
  2. ↑ Pietra di Tocco is a huge limestone rock that served as a sighting point in ancient times.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarita Orsini. Middle Ages genealogy. Manfred-hiebl.de, accessed on May 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Orsini-Angelo-Comneno. Genetic enostrum, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Romolo Caggese, Italia, 1313-1414, cap. VII, vol. VI, p. 314
  4. ^ Archivio privato di Tocco di Montemiletto, p. 167
  5. ^ Roberto di Taranto. Foundation of Medieval Genealogy, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Erasmo Ricca, Istoria de 'feudi dell'Italia, p. 274
  7. ↑ Pietra di TOCC. Camministorici.it, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  8. ^ A b Antonio Summonte, Historia della città e Regno di Napoli, p. 390
  9. ^ William Miller, The Latins in the Levant, p. 332
  10. ^ William Miller, The Latins in the Levant, p. 307
  11. ^ Counts of Kefalonia (Tocco). Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Niccolò II. Della Carceri. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  13. ↑ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts, 1868, p. 32
predecessor Office successor
Robert of Taranto Count Palatine of Kefalonia
1357–1376 		Carlo I. Tocco
personal data
SURNAME Leonardo I. Tocco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Palatine of Kefalonia 1357 until his death
DATE OF BIRTH around 1310
DATE OF DEATH around 1376